Bernard Bresslaw

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Biography

A RADA scholar who was spotted by Laurence Olivier, Bernard Bresslaw got professional security from the "Carry On" films but was typecast (as TV's The Army Game (1957) had done earlier). He was beginning to extend himself through stage work when, in 1993, just before a performance in "The Taming Of The Shrew" in Regent's Park, London, he had a heart attack and died at the age of 59.

Timeline

2010Aged 76

  • Poster for Warriors of Mars

    (archive audio recording)

2001Aged 67

  • Poster for On Location: The Carry Ons

    Bernie Hulke / Bernie Lugg / Bungdit Din (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998Aged 64

  • Poster for What's a Carry On?

    Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993Aged 59

  • Poster for Leon the Pig Farmer

    Rabbi Hartmann

1984Aged 50

  • Poster for Androcles and the Lion

    Ferrovius

1983Aged 49

  • Poster for Krull

    Cyclops

1980Aged 46

  • Poster for Hawk the Slayer

    Gort, the Giant

1979Aged 45

  • Poster for The Fifth Musketeer

    Bernard

1977Aged 43

  • Poster for Joseph Andrews

    Parson Trulliber (uncredited)

  • Poster for Jabberwocky

    The Landlord

  • Poster for That's Carry On!

    Various Characters (archive footage)

1975Aged 41

  • Poster for Carry On Behind

    Arthur Upmore

  • Poster for One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

    Fan Choy

1974Aged 40

  • Poster for Carry On Dick

    Sir Roger Daley

  • Poster for Vampira

    Pottinger

1973Aged 39

  • Poster for What a Carry On!

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Carry On Girls

    Peter Potter

  • Poster for Carry on Christmas

    Bodkin Pod / Camp Aristocrat / Darts Player / Captain Ffing-Burke / Ballerina / Little John / Constable

1972Aged 38

  • Poster for Blinker's Spy-Spotter

    South

  • Poster for Carry On Matron

    Ernie Bragg

  • Poster for Carry On Abroad

    Brother Bernard

1971Aged 37

  • Poster for Up Pompeii

    Gorgo

  • Poster for The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

    Mr. Violet (segment "Avarice")

  • Poster for Carry On at Your Convenience

    Bernie Hulke

1970Aged 36

  • Poster for Carry On Up the Jungle

    Upsidasi

  • Poster for Carry On Loving

    Gripper Burke

  • Poster for Spring and Port Wine

    Lorry Driver

  • Poster for Carry On Again Christmas

    Rollicky Bill / Long John Silver

1969Aged 35

  • Poster for Carry On Camping

    Bernie Lugg

  • Poster for Moon Zero Two

    Harry

  • Poster for Carry On Christmas

    Various Characters

1968Aged 34

  • Poster for Carry On Up the Khyber

    Bungdit Din

1967Aged 33

  • Poster for Follow That Camel

    Sheikh Abdul Abulbul

  • Poster for Carry On Doctor

    Mr. Ken Biddle

  • Poster for Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

    Varga

1966Aged 32

  • Poster for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Policeman

  • Poster for Carry On Screaming!

    Sockett

1965Aged 31

  • Poster for Carry On Cowboy

    Little Heap

1964Aged 30

  • Poster for A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Snout

1963Aged 29

  • Poster for It's All Happening

    Parsons

1960Aged 26

  • Poster for Alice Through the Looking Box

    March Hare

1959Aged 25

  • Poster for Carry On Nurse

    Ted York's Feet (uncredited)

  • Poster for Too Many Crooks

    Snowdrop

  • Poster for The Ugly Duckling

    Henry Jekyll / Teddy Hyde

1958Aged 24

  • Poster for Blood of the Vampire

    Tall Sneak Thief

  • Poster for I Only Arsked

    Excused Boots Bisley

1957Aged 23

  • Poster for High Tide at Noon

    Tom Robey

1956Aged 22

  • Poster for Satellite in the Sky

    Technician (uncredited)

  • Poster for Up in the World

    Williams (uncredited)

1955Aged 21

  • Poster for The Glass Cage

    Ivan The Terrible

1954Aged 20

  • Poster for The Men of Sherwood Forest

    Garth